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Old 07-17-2004, 01:22 AM
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I wish we were less selective to install our Charges at, not just in super good schools. Also I disagree with our 157+ years unwritten policy to have no more than 32 active Charges at a time.

On the other hand, I am proud that some of our strongest Charges are still active in very good schools, like in Brown, William & Mary, Dartmouth, Amherst and Stanford (all anti-Greek schools with long traditions of Greek life). And not many GLOs have established all 8 Ivy League schools at a point of time.

Also I wish we were considering the expansion more in the South, not only in New England/Virginia/NY area. I think Southern schools also have a lot of things to offer, but it is hard to convince older Ivy graduate brothers about this.

Our Charge establishment was controversial in 1909, since nobody wanted to start a new Charge in an agricultural college, eventhough we already had established U of Wisconsin, U of Michigan, U of Illinois and U of Indiana Charges at that time in the midwest. Good thing that there was a brother from Iowa that went school in Cornell, and he helped us to gain our Charge in 1919, after 10 years of Colonial period (and lots of rejections ) Thanks a lot, bros!
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